This is quite possibly one of the most significant upgrades Ukrainian Fulcrums have received. SDBs are capable, plentiful, and more importantly, cheap.
Flyaway cost for an SDB is $36,000. That’s less than a quarter of a GMLRS rocket, it’s roughly 10% of a M982 Excalibur.
Source: https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1794353719691370528?t=UEDv6xjYdezKPH1mzpQzhg&s=19
by Hotrico
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100km range. Would be very useful as close(ish) air support for front lines. If they can carry the full load of 8, that’s some serious firepower.
Would have been good if they didn’t need to figure out how to integrate NATO weapons onto Soviet planes…
This is great news, perfect solution for quick air support, and slowing down the Russians when they try to breakthrough
Knock, knock..
Now strap it on a 1500 km drone….
The SDB relies on the Global Positioning System to provide navigation to the target….so it can be jammed…
Love it
Now glide a bomb on top of Putins head.
too bad they can’t use them in russia
Thats the kinda MacGyver stuff i like to see! Ukraine engineers are really good at this stuff, happy to see more modern weapons on soviet stuff to make russia blyat away!
I bet this is what we saw last week when that building got taken out
Giving ru-phuccers a taste of their own medicine.
Geil. Knallt das Gesindel weg! Maximale Kampferfolge.
Please just pound the fuck out of ruzzians with these, im so done with their shit
Wiki says that the total number built is 17,000+
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-39_Small_Diameter_Bomb
Don’t know how big that plus is.
Doesn’t sound like the total inventory is all that large. I’m sure that they’ll be smart about what they target, they’ll have to be.
Fuck yeah!
NO LIFT ( just drop & kill ) ,slava ukraini
Hopefully one these Ukraini extend-a-flight tricks can deliver these to the head of the serpent in Moscow.
10% figure is just wrong, Excalibur costed $68,000 a round in 2016
…capable, plentiful and cheap. Sounds good, send 25,000 of them right away. 100km range means no risk, perfect for allowing AFU to fire them across the border into ruzzia at military targets.
Would also like to see some scaled down version of MOAB. Could be useful for clearing minefields (making path) and of course disinfecting fortifications (allowing progress). Punch a hole weapons.
Not saying this isn’t excellent.
Hope they can get around the electronic counter measures
Ukraine needs to be sending at least 100 ghetto cruise missiles into Russia everyday. Even if they never reach their targets they’ll degrade air defense inventories.
If I were Ukraine I’d take Blinkins advice. Start striking Russia targets on Russian soil, otherwise they essentially have an untouchable point reinforcement and staging. Russia might retaliate against the US but it would be the stupidest thing he could do because then Nato each sends a tiny bit of their reserves and pushes Russia out of Ukraine and NATO will have zero qualms about striking Russian soil and I don’t think Putin would survive it. Russia’s ability to defend it’s own state has been dramatically weakened because of the drain created by its continued efforts in Ukraine. Public intel suggest Putin’s own cabinet is dissolving around him. It might trigger a world war, it very well might but I feel strongly we are headed their anyway. If we can just keep Trump and his facist club out of office then we got no worries. If Trump is re-elected then the whole planet is f**ked.
would these have to be programmed on the ground like Stormshadows?